The 30 hardest video games ever, from Cuphead to Contra

Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels(1993, NES) was actually released as Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan. The game we know as Super Mario Bros 2 is a reskinned version of Doki Doki Panic. Nintendo decided that the Japanese sequel was too hard for Western gamers, and it wasn't until 1993 and the SNES Mario All Stars collection that we got a chance to find out for ourselves. They had a point. While similar in appearance to the original Super Mario Bros, Lost Levels is a far more difficult platformer, and even introduces the poison mushroom dummy powerup